Canadian Army Exercise ARCTIC BISON 2017 challenged by winter thaw
About 200 Canadian soldiers began a winter warfare exercise in an unusually balmy weather on Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba Friday.
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Author: Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Gold miner Agnico Eagle to invest $1.2B in two Canadian Arctic mines
Toronto-based Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. is moving ahead with plans to expand an existing gold mine project and develop another
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German scientists sound alarm on Arctic trash
The amount of trash littering the bottom of the Arctic Ocean continues to dramatically increase despite the region’s relative remoteness
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Ontario court sides with Indigenous survivors of Sixties Scoop
Canada failed in its obligations to thousands of Aboriginal children who were taken away from their parents and placed with non-Indigenous
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UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force will have ramifications for Arctic security: experts
A seven-country rapid reaction force to shore up defences of the Baltic states against an increasingly assertive Russia could have
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Arctic offshore drilling too dangerous: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government’s ban on Arctic drilling for the next five years, saying it simply couldn’t
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LIVE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds Northern town hall meeting in Yellowknife
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the Northwest Territories today on the last leg of his northern tour.
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U.S. Arctic strategy puts Canada and Russia on notice
A U.S. Arctic strategy document made public this week is putting both Moscow and Ottawa on notice that Washington considers the
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Census 2016: Nunavut leads Canada’s population growth
Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut has registered the strongest population growth in the country, with a 12.7 per cent increase,
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Introducing Canada’s ‘poop lady’
One of the first words in Inuktitut that Catherine Girard had to learn was the word for ‘poop’ – anak.
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Freeze or thaw? What Freeland’s appointment means for Russia-Canada relations in the Arctic
The appointment of Chrystia Freeland, a fierce critic of the Kremlin and its actions in Ukraine, as Canada’s new minister
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Canada to continue re-engaging with Russia: Freeland
Canada will continue its policy of re-engagement with Russia, said the country’s newly appointed foreign affairs minister who’s been a
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Melting Arctic ice patches reveal rich archaeological record
Canadian archaeologist Tom Andrews is in a race against time. For more than a decade, Andrews and his team from
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North and South poles post low sea ice extent in December: NSIDC
Sea ice in the Arctic and the Antarctic set record low extents every day in December, according to the latest
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Caribou decline, Arctic shipping and renewable energy: WWF Canada looks back at 2016
The Arctic is already experiencing the effects of climate change with extremely alarming statistics on temperature rise and lack of
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